Whether it's people, places or events which fuel "the news," the fabric of our lives is impacted by world events. This collection features stories from ancient to modern times.
In this clip, we see Germany's much-feared rockets - the V-2/A-4 - during launch.
The ancient Laws of Eshnunna, which scholars believe predate the Code of Hammurabi, contain a "mad dog law" specifying compensation if a rabid dog kil...
Thomas Clarkson describes the public's reaction to the drawings he and his colleagues commissioned of the Slave ShipBrooks
Harold Richmond, a philanthropist, grew-up loving Sir Thomas Clapperton’s "Wonderland" sculpture located in Oamaru, on New Zealand’s South Island.
History tells us that the runner from Marathon to Athens was Pheidippides, but there is more to uncover about his story
During July of 1917, demonstrators in Petrograd (including sailors from Kronstadt) were met with fierce opposition by soldiers of the provisional gove...
The charismatic Bolshevik leader, born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, helped to overthrow four hundred years of tsarist rule in Russia.
By the time America joined World War II - on the 8th of December, 1941 - Britain had already been fighting in Europe for more than two years.
Irish children, detained in the country's Industrial Schools, were forced to work as well as study during their years of detention in such places. One...
Professor van Musschenbroek, from Leiden University, conducts a world-changing experiment which gives him a massive electric shock.
Leyden Jars are used by many experimenters in the 18th century, including Benjamin Franklin who proposes (and conducts) experiments to understand how ...
Thousands of Irish children were sent to places called "Industrial Schools" throughout the 1950s. Many of these "schools" were not suitable for childr...
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